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| From | GaryPig@aol.com |
| Subject | They're Only In It For The Money |
| Date | Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:40:08 EDT |
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In a post dated Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:45:09 -0400,
Stewart wondered (most rhetorically indeed, I'm sure),
<< Seriously, have the majors *always* been run by morons and we just
never noticed it before? >>
"Groups of guitars are on the way out, Mr. Epstein. You have a good record
business in Liverpool. Why don't you stick to that?"
(Dick Rowe, Decca Records, January 1962).
"We don't think they will do anything in [the American] market."
(Dave "Dex" Dexter, Jr., Capitol Records, August 1963).
.....and that's just re Beatles,
Gary "PS: but Dave Dexter's book "Playback" IS Required Reading, however,
if only for the chapter on Nat King Cole ....not to mention his play-by-play,
blow-by-verbal-blow recounting of a run-in with J. Lennon at some Capitol
cocktail party about a year after uttering the quote above" Pig
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